Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-25
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WICHITA, Kan, March "a, 1887.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.
II a word from q mere so1ourner and
stranger be in order on 80 important sub
ject. / will state that have read with in
terest the two eommunieatiqns-one in
poetry " ssi one in prose-in your issue
of Thursday. March "a, bearing on the sub
iect of female suffrage and the voting
franchise.
This deponent. if sitting as committee.
would be compelled to umpire the case in
favor of your correspondent, &C." who
wrote the prose article. You state editori
rally that the author thereof is lady. and
believe it. The article itself Is evidence
corroborative of your statement that she is
wise, while it would of course require such
personal acquaintance as you yousself en-
Joy to pronounce her fair.
But she Is doubtless fair as she is wise,
and this deponent in the hearty endorse
ment of her position, would enjoy grasping
her hand, metaphorically If not otherwise,
as heartily as the editor Of the EAGLE
would enjoy falling into the arms" of GER
tain phases of female loneliness editorially
specified in the issue above mentioned.
As to the communication headed
Woman" in rhyme if not in verse,
I have something Of defer
ent opinion. Not being willing
to 90 on record as either critical or hyper
critical where the other sex poses as auth
or, 1 will hedge by saying that don't
believe any lady wrote that article. Hedg-
ing thus, shall not hesitate to open the
food, gates of fault finding, if only a
"horrid man" is to feel the edge of the
critical scimeter.
Such faulty measure, such bad gram
mar and inadmissible rhymes must come
only from male. the average individual
of that gender having about as much
poetry in his soul as the structures of the
metropolitan dsilies on Wichita's boom
have If the truth
Certainly "bought" can be made to
rhyme with mot" If the rhymesier hailed
from the furthermost bounds Of bleak New
England, but it sounds odd to western
citizens, and is certainly not Tennysonian.
This, however, may be passed over on the
expansive bridge Of poetic license; but no
stretch of the Imagination can carry that
license far enough to sanction the word
che" used az the object of the proposition
''for" in the twelfth line.
Certainly Beth" must be man. 1t
were sacreligious to accuse woman Of
writing such stuff, either as to matter or to
form. One wonders whether 1.-THE tale Of
the sun and moon" vouchsafed
under certain conditions is to be Mum
chausenism, or is it merely Talmagian.
Surely it would be good Pauline doctrine
to have the moon (woman) shine only by
the reflected light from the sun (man); for
that apostolic dignitary is accredited with
the doctrine that lit is a
shame for a woman to speak in church, !"
ETC., &C.. and so on. II she would learn
let her ask her husband at
home" Would II not be just little bit
rough on some of the Wichita wives it
they had to be restricted to that source Of
only3 1t is true. or Wichita
wives are vastly different from large
Of Kansas City wives.
also like the position of the prose essay
list much better than the other Oh the sub
ject Of God pronounced Gawd), and the
interest he-shc or it-takes in the affairs
Of his-hers or its-children.
''Salus populi suprema lex esto, is a
fraud of motto until the position of Mrs.
&c. wins the day over that of MIR. Beth.
Then We can say truly. "Ad astra per
aspera.
A GREAT BIG MAN FROM Missouri.